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Once more I am coming back to the forum to share our latest work with you all.

Many of you already know about our research and have greatly contributed to making it work with your valuable feedback. I am extremely grateful for this so I would love to share this last work with you which I think represents the summit of what our technology is able to do.

For those who do not know about our project, these recordings are all made with just two mics. No mixing and mastering involved. Just a stereo pickup and a calibrated system to produce the most transparent possible sound. You can read about it at: http://www.playclassics.com/trtsound

This particular album with sextets for piano and winds by Ravel, Poulenc and Françaix, will be released on February 19th 2020, but as of right now it will be available to all ASR members as a free master file (24/96) download. All you have to do is ask and I will be happy to send you a gift code to download the album.

Of course, as always, feedback is welcome but not mandatory to receive and enjoy your album

The room is relatively big (50 squaremeter) but quite dry (3 walls with furniture or book shelfs, left wall mostly windows) living room. There are not many reflections and it is not typical - most systems I have seen or heard are in higher reflective surroundings.

The sound is very clean and transparent.

The soundstage does not reach outside the speaker base. I had expected a somewhat broader soundstage.

It seems that the room where the recording took part is quite dry as well (which helps regarding transparency).

I read the information on your homepage. I'm not sure that it is possible to keep to your strict rules when recording a full symphonic orchestra though. The dynamic will be very high and there are very few customers who have a system which is able to play such an unprocessed recording.

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Once more I am coming back to the forum to share our latest work with you all.

Many of you already know about our research and have greatly contributed to making it work with your valuable feedback. I am extremely grateful for this so I would love to share this last work with you which I think represents the summit of what our technology is able to do.

For those who do not know about our project, these recordings are all made with just two mics. No mixing and mastering involved. Just a stereo pickup and a calibrated system to produce the most transparent possible sound. You can read about it at: http://www.playclassics.com/trtsound

This particular album with sextets for piano and winds by Ravel, Poulenc and Françaix, will be released on February 19th 2020, but as of right now it will be available to all ASR members as a free master file (24/96) download. All you have to do is ask and I will be happy to send you a gift code to download the album.

Of course, as always, feedback is welcome but not mandatory to receive and enjoy your album

Active Member

Once more I am coming back to the forum to share our latest work with you all.

Many of you already know about our research and have greatly contributed to making it work with your valuable feedback. I am extremely grateful for this so I would love to share this last work with you which I think represents the summit of what our technology is able to do.

For those who do not know about our project, these recordings are all made with just two mics. No mixing and mastering involved. Just a stereo pickup and a calibrated system to produce the most transparent possible sound. You can read about it at: http://www.playclassics.com/trtsound

This particular album with sextets for piano and winds by Ravel, Poulenc and Françaix, will be released on February 19th 2020, but as of right now it will be available to all ASR members as a free master file (24/96) download. All you have to do is ask and I will be happy to send you a gift code to download the album.

Of course, as always, feedback is welcome but not mandatory to receive and enjoy your album

The room is relatively big (50 squaremeter) but quite dry (3 walls with furniture or book shelfs, left wall mostly windows) living room. There are not many reflections and it is not typical - most systems I have seen or heard are in higher reflective surroundings.

The sound is very clean and transparent.

The soundstage does not reach outside the speaker base. I had expected a somewhat broader soundstage.

It seems that the room where the recording took part is quite dry as well (which helps regarding transparency).

I read the information on your homepage. I'm not sure that it is possible to keep to your struct rules when recording a full symphonic orchestra though. The dynamic will be very high and there are very few customers who have a system which is able to play such an unprocessed recording.

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Downloaded and listening now. Sounds excellent. In general I like "direct to disc" / "two mic" / limited production recordings and have collected them over the years. I think the main reason is so much care must be taken before recording begins... it also puts extra pressure on the artists which they usually respond well to. I am not a big "image" person, often I find "fake" stereo images distracting and sometimes find "mono" recordings more realistic and pleasant. In the case of this recording the image is very nice, not intrusive or exaggerated but a nice sound of the "room" and some 3-D space.